Open-source chain-of-thought reasoning
AI Models AI has a narrow moat on average, from the moat scores of its rated products. What protects AI Models AI tools, and the widest moats
DeepSeek R1 has high opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 455 live AI Models tools on FalcoScan. Across AI Models, the average opportunity score is 74.6 and the average saturation score 30.5. FalcoScan rates DeepSeek R1's own market position as contested. 200 of the 455 operating AI Models tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 13 shutdowns in the category.
The capabilities DeepSeek R1 exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.
Products still running that do the same job, from the ai models market and related ones, closest match first.
DeepSeek R1 has a free tier, with paid plans.
The closest alternatives to DeepSeek R1 that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Qwen 2.5 72B, Qwen QwQ 32B, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Llama 3.3, and o3 mini.
Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists DeepSeek R1 as operating at deepseek.com.
Yes. DeepSeek R1 offers an API.
DeepSeek R1 is built for developers and researchers.
Sign in on DeepSeek R1's own website, deepseek.com. FalcoScan reviews DeepSeek R1 but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by DeepSeek R1 directly.